Latest articles by Ian Fortnam
The Rolling Stones' In Mono: it's great but it borders on abuse
The Stones’ monaural 60s box: eight albums, 16 discs, six kilograms-plus of wallet-rinsing duplication
Iggy Pop has made the best album he could have made: a stone-cold classic
Former Stooges firebrand Iggy Pop finds dazzling late-career form on 19th solo album Every Loser
The Beatles Revolver Special Edition: so good, divorce papers will be filed if this isn't in certain stockings this Christmas
Can Giles Martin work his magic on Revolver's four-track recordings? Yes, he can.
Buzzcocks' Steve Diggle: "five years of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll took its toll"
Buzzcocks' leader Steve Diggle on following his dream, the toll of partying too hard, and continuing after losing Pete Shelley
Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman: the soundtrack of my life
Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals why bossa nova is the perfect music for breakfast
The Godfathers are back with a new line-up, a new album, and a disdain for poodle hairdos
Having fired the old band a hired a new one, Peter Coyne reckons The Godfathers pack lot of "a whole lot of rock’n’roll dynamite"
The Byrds, Bob Dylan, and a guitar sound that defined the sixties
Roger McGuinn recalls The Byrds’ first-album flight of Mr Tambourine Man – and how that guitar sound was created
The Joan Jett albums you should definitely own
The leather-clad leader of the gang, Joan Jett was a teenage sensation with The Runaways and the ultimate queen of noise. These are her best albums
The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant classic rock bands
Even the best can get it wrong sometimes: here's the worst albums by 10 of rock's greatest bands
Metallica: we sacrificed Jason to save ourselves
In 2001 Metallica were on the cusp of extinction – until the departure of bassist Jason Newsted brought them back from from the brink
Chuck Leavell has played with the Stones for decades but every night is still a thrill
Rolling Stones pianist and musical director Chuck Leavell on good times with the Allman Brothers and flicking Mick Jagger the 'V' sign
Six things you need to know about… His Lordship
His Lordship listen to what Chrissie Hynde says, they’re all cranked up, they wear cheap suits, they dig raw rock’n’roll
Charlie Watts: the man who didn't know what all the fuss was about
A look back at the life of rock'n'roll's most stylish cricket nut, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts
Steve Jones: the Classic Rock interview
Now in his mid-60s, and with the ups/downs life experience of someone at least twice his age, the former Sex Pistols guitarist who changed the world says: “I don’t want any aggro at this stage of the game. I just wanna have a good time.”
Rolling Stones albums ranked from worst to best
Every classic Rolling Stones album ranked from woeful worst to brilliant, bluesy best
David Bowie and the most influential three minutes and 55 seconds of UK TV ever
The full story behind David Bowie's 1972 performance of Starman on Top Of The Pops, a moment that changed the world of music forever
Every song on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, ranked from worst to best
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders from Mars? There's nothing wrong with it at all. We shouldn't rearrange it. But we have, from least best to most best
The Sky's the limit: The return of rock'n'roll heroes The Hellacopters
Returning after a 14-year hiatus, Swedish rock mavericks The Hellacopters look at where it all went wrong, and right
Another Sex Pistols compilation, another exercise in commercial cynicism
Looking for the ultimate Sex Pistols collection? You’d be better off ignoring The Original Recordings and buying Bollocks
Liam Gallagher continues his unstoppable rise to mainstream ubiquity
Two albums from enduringly Marmite Mancunian Liam Gallagher, the most irretrievably Oasis of all former Oasis members
Jimmy Page on gatekeeping Led Zep, playing the Olympics, and the tribes of Morocco
Interview: We catch up with Jimmy Page to discuss the passing of time, old friends, and why he won't tell us what he's doing next
Billy Idol: an extraordinary life, and vivid proof that dreams do come true
It was the arrival of MTV in the 80s that made former London punk Billy Idol one of the era’s stars, but with the fame came a whole load of problems. Lived a life? You bet
Rick Wakeman's 10 favourite '70s rock songs
Keyboard legend Rick Wakeman looks back on 10 classic songs that made the 70s great
